Kelly Gissendaner has been executed in the state of Georgia in the United States.<br /><br /> She became the first woman to be executed in the state for 70 years.<br /><br /> Clergy makes up a large % of those here in protest of Gissendaner execution #11alive pic.twitter.com/LrSdIiOvpg— Jeremy Campbell (@Jeremy11alive) September 29, 2015<br /><br /> Gissendaner was convicted of murder for persuading her lover to kill her husband in 1997.<br /><br /> Despite interventions from the Pope and her children <br />the sentence was carried out. <br /><br /> No clemency for death row inmate despite plea from Pope Francis http://t.co/G3ZI2EV5Hr pic.twitter.com/Dt5esOgdId— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) September 29, 2015
